CLX. 

 ERYSIMUM ALLI ARI A . 



Sauce alone, or Jack by the Hedge. 



Class XV. Tetradynamia. — Order II. Siliquosa. 



Nat. Ord. Crucifer^e. 



Gen. Char. Pod four-sided. Seeds not margined. Co- 

 tyledons incumbent. Stigma capitate, sometimes emar- 

 ginate. Calyx erect. 



Spec. Char. Leaves cordate, stalked, sinuato-dentate. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Alliaria. Bauh. Pin. 110. Ger.Em. 794. Park. Theatr. 112. 



Raii Syn. 165. Cam. Epit. 589. Dod. Pempt. 674. Fuch. 

 Hist. 104. 



Latin J Hesperis allium redolens. Tourn. Paris. 200. Dill, ap Raii 



Syn. 293. 

 Sisymbrium Alliaria. Scop. Cam. ed. ii. n. 825. 

 Erysimum Alliaria. Lin. Sp. PI. 922. Eny. Fl. iii.p. 201. 

 ^ Eny. Bot. t. 796. 

 French .... Alliare. 

 Italian .... Aliaria. 



German . . Knoblauchkraut ; Lauchel ; Gernsel ; Salsekraut. 

 Dutch .... Kpoflockruid ; Look zonder look. 

 Danish.. . . Hvidlogsurt. 

 Swedish . . . Hvitloksort. 



Description. — The root is biennial, whitish, tapering and 

 fibrous. The stem is erect, simple, or slightly branched, cylin- 

 drical, smooth, obsoletely channelled, and rises to the height of 

 two or three feet. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, cordate, 

 unequally toothed and sinuate at the margin, veiny, glabrous on 

 both sides ; those at the base of the stem are more obtuse, re- 



